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U.S. Tries To Open Up Web Access To China

Posted by timothy on from the kinda-sorta dept.

An anonymous reader writes "CNET has a story about the U.S. funding software that will thwart firewall technology in China. It seems funny to me that while the U.S. tries to limit our access they are trying to open up China's. I wonder if I could use this technology in Michigan?" The agency funding the software is the International Broadcasting Bureau, an "independent federal government entity."

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  1. Cute. by HaloZero · · Score: 2, Funny

    So we kick the shit out of Saddam for beating on his people, oppressing them, etc.

    Are we going to do the same to China's 'net infrastructure? I'd love to see the DoD try to stuff an M1A1 Abhrams and six dozen marines through a 1 gigabit pipe.

    Next thing you know, the White House will start publishing press releases stating that China is a threat for producing w32.* worms.

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    Informatus Technologicus
  2. Here's hoping that China retaliates... by RalphBNumbers · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...by producing and distributing software to combat government sponsored censorship of the net here in America.

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    "The worst tyrannies were the ones where a governance required its own logic on every embedded node." - Vernor Vinge